Critical Thinking

• 1. SUM IT UP Make a card for each vocabulary word. Use at least five cards to summarize how the Aniak Fire Department responded to the need for more emergency rescue workers in their region.

  

• 2. Paraphrase In your own words, explain to a partner how a teenager becomes a member of the Dragon Slayers team. Use details from the text to support your ideas.

• 3. Evaluate Revisit your Anticipation Guide. Do you want to change your answers? Why or why not? Discuss your ideas with your classmates.

• 4. Infer Why do you think the Aniak Fire Department named their young team of emergency workers the Dragon Slayers? Explain.

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 664 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

• 1. I read

  • a. great

  • b. OK

  • c. not very well

• 2. What I did best in my reading was ______.

Reading Strategy

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

California is a _______ of the country where the fire and police _______ handle many _______. There are many wildfires and car _______. Thank goodness these _______ of workers have the _______ to do their _______ jobs well! Maybe I’ll choose to have a _______ helping people, too.

Written Review Imagine you are a member of the Dragon Slayers team. Write a journal entry about an emergency you handled. What was difficult about it? Use five vocabulary words.

Write About the Guiding Question

Explore Why People Help

Is “Angels in the Snow” a good title for this article? Write your opinion. Reread the selection to find examples to support your ideas.